The
day starts early for Fluffy now. This is the first picture of the
morning taken at 5.53am before the inside light and camera are switched on.
She
pops out briefly ...
...
and then returns. The time is now 5.57am!
In a
trice, Barney is there, no doubt with some food.
The contrast between Fluffy's feathers and Barney's could not be clearer. It's a good job her flight feathers do not seem to be affected!
Soon,
he is away. Another day has started - and all before the light in the
box is switched on at 6 o'clock!
Neptune
is still living in the past. He cannot seem to get Fantail out of his
system. Presumably, he is genetically programmed to collect food and
bring it to the nest, come what may!
This
image nearly made me fall off my chair. This is Neptune, we checked
him going into the nest from the outside camera, but this does look like a
female doing a nesting wriggle! We have never seen a male do this before - the poor
bird must be totally confused by what is happening to him.
We saw this as it happened - it definitely looked like a nesting wriggle!!
Here
he is on his way from the nest box - the tail confirms that it is Neptune,
as did the markings on his back when looked at from outside as he went into
the box.